Chapter 635 — Qiu Lingshan Is Caught
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Brother Ma and Biaozi exchanged a smile. Out here in this desolate wilderness, shouting at the top of your lungs was useless — you could bellow through a megaphone and no one would hear. Though they were operating in Binjia Village, they did not dare seize anyone where there were crowds. If the villagers were roused, how could two men stand against a whole crowd?
So to be safe, they had chosen a sparsely populated footpath through the fields. It was quiet here, true, but it had one drawback: almost no one came by at night, unless it was some traveler hurrying along the night road.
The two of them had only meant to try their luck here in the early part of the night, hoping someone might pass by; if that failed, they would wait until the small hours and break into a house to seize someone. Riskier, to be sure, but at least by then most people would be asleep and wouldn't be alarmed.
What they never expected was that after only a few hours of waiting, a lone village woman came walking the night road. What a rare stroke of luck! Without a thought for whether Qiu Lingshan might cry out, they drove a fist straight into the back of her neck and knocked her unconscious.
In fact, Qiu Lingshan had not lost consciousness at all; she was only pretending! If a Yellow-rank expert could be knocked out just like that, Yellow-rank experts would be far too feeble.
The two men dragged Qiu Lingshan into a minivan, and the van started up at once and sped off toward the city.
After a drive of roughly half an hour, Qiu Lingshan was delivered to another abandoned factory on the outskirts, still short of the city proper — only this time the place was at the opposite end of the map from the last hideout.
Qiu Lingshan knew this was merely a temporary transfer point, not the gang's headquarters; she was only being stored here for the time being! The two thugs just now had been the snatch team, and there would surely be another crew whose job was to deliver her to the place where the surgery was done! That place had to be their real headquarters.
At the abandoned factory, Qiu Lingshan was thrown into a basement, and the two thugs went off gleefully to collect their pay.
Her guard was another man, somewhat grim of face, with a hooked nose and deeply sunken eye sockets, like someone who had smoked opium to excess.
The hook-nosed man looked her over carefully and was struck at once by her beauty. He had never imagined a village woman could be so lovely — it was simply beyond expectation. And she looked young, too; surely she wasn't married yet.
The hook-nosed man smacked his lips, eyeing her with greedy longing, but after a moment's hesitation he dialed a number.
"Brother Tattoo, we've caught us a fat sheep," the hook-nosed man said in a low voice, afraid of waking Qiu Lingshan — never suspecting that she had been awake the whole time.
"Oh? Very good. I'll send someone to collect the goods in a bit." The one who answered was An Liwen's trusted man, Tattoo: "Not bad, quick work this time — consider yourself commended! Keep it up, and tell them to keep catching fat sheep!"